The Open Containerrr project is physically over. We would like to give special thanks to Luger & Maul Architekten and Linzer Schutzengel Apotheke for letting us use this awesome space to hold our project.

Thanks too to the Interface Culture Dept and “Exile Atelier” at Kollegiumgasse for loaning us lights and electric equipment, couch and chairs and holding neverending Expanderrr meetings!

More thanks to MISSING LINK, Lessingstraße 10, for holding our end party! As well as Jules & Jim, Dj J and GRAMPAUMBRA for such a nice evening; a gift.

Finally thank’s and greets to all those who dropped and joined the different lectures, workshops, our exhibition and party; sharing and collaborating with us, interacting and unfolding such interesting, indefinable and exciting results.

The Workshop is not yet closed in terms of topic, as the main approach of the whole project is relational art, the workshop will be devoted in terms of it’s directional setting to be open to be shaped, both, in terms of topics and goals and third in decision taking of the modus operandi. Short put, the participants will decide like a flock of birds the direction of the collaborative process according to the needs and expectations of the participants and in respect of the limited given mains of production.

Fortunately Enrique Tomas (Quique), a member of servus.at, will participate at the workshop and will offer his ideas and knowldege too, what will enrich the workshop tremendously, as he is really offering a lot of expertise in various techniques and branches, both, of open source thougt and commitment and audio-arts.

MIchael Schweiger will provide the Soundstudio’s portable Studio, Mics and Recorders, some small speakers, one or two analog mixing desks and some piezo disks (yet prepared to use and some to be soldered and coated wirh liquid ruber) and some other mains for experiments, like breadboards and some circuit schematics and literature full of playful little basic experiments…

And of course both will share his approaches and ideas, as well as their love for audio works and audible experiments. They”d like to go for a group-work process leading to make the comtainer sound and interact with it’s surround. But this is merely a proposal.

Martin Kaltenbrunner, Professor at the Interface Culture Lab at the University of Art and Design in Linz, will provide a brief introduction into the various aspects of Free & Open Source licenses in the context of Media Art.

The Lecture tries to give a short glance on the development of electric and electronic music, definitely with no demand of completeness. The goal is to sketch some of the branches of the tree of emergence and development of both, electric and electronic music.

One focus will be put on background principles and technical as well as societal prerequesites which fostered these processes. Further one other focus will try to put the role of nationalist competition and war technologies as both, retrading as well as speeding up circumstances.

Finally a highlight will be put on electronic music as a field of different speeds and width, one in the field of very scientific and even symbolic capital enriching developments in the public and/or state driven big radio stations, research labs , in the era of the famous experimental studios and a sceocnd in the field of glam rock, psychedlic music and not to forget “kraut rock”

“Every social relationship is mediated by artifacts or human elements intervenedecisively in the relationship …)”2.

So we face an interactive installation in which the user through of ludic-interface, hybridof tennis racket and computer keyboard, processes by random the information storedin the computer, instant results in a fortuitous sequence of videos and sounds.

This game is about cultural space, segregation and changing the map of your city by exploring, dreaming, imagining and exchanging.

During the game you will place different cultural activities on the map of your city, where they are now and where you want them to be. There is already a set of cards with examples of activities and spaces that you start playing with, but during the game you as a player will be invited to make your own cards. These cards can show existing, favorite places of yours or places you desire or dream about – visionary places. The game will become a container of the players ́ personal places, ideas, thoughts and dreams, giving new perspectives to the layout of your city.

Anna Moreno, 1984 Barcelona, Spain, is a visual artist we had the pleasure to meet during her Artist in Residence at Atelierhaus Salzamt (Linz, Austria) in 2011. During her time in Linz she has made a Solo Exhibition “Learn Something Useful”. At bb15 Raum für Gegenwartskunst. Linz, Austria.

She will also take part in the Open Containerrr Project making a presentation of her work and an Open Dialogue about the Open Containerrr Project.